Frances Stickley grew up in Nottingham and Norwich, where she spent much of her time making up poems and dressing up her dog. She is a trained children's literacy specialist and a primary school teacher who is happiest when she is covered in paint or stuck in a book. In 2017, Frances was the winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust short story prize. She lives with her family and a big-eared dog called Babbage. When she is not writing, you'll probably find her in aforest playing dragons with her daughters. Nikki grew up in the countryside in a small village called Shrivenham in Oxfordshire. Nikki studied for her illustration degree in Swindon and since graduating in 2006 has illustrated books for children. Nikki spent a lot of her childhood drawing, reading and making mud pies in the garden.

To this day she still does the same but gets paid for it too, which is lovely, and you'll be pleased to hear the mud pie business is still going strong. Nikki loves creatingcharacters for stories and is hugely inspired by animation and concept artists especially. One of her favorite cartoons is Looney Tunes' Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner - "Beep, Beep!".